I wonder if at scale this will lead to mosquito farms or to mosquito extinction in nature.

Of course I suspect it will be the former but the latter is way funnier.

We've been stuck with these insects for a while. It would be so funny that the solution to get rid of them was in fact the same that wiped out many species before: over exploitation of natural resources.

cc https://tornyol.com/

Breeding mosquitos is way easier than capturing them.

And then there are farm to breed mosquitos in order to neuter others

I mean, ideally it would lead to both. We can wipe out the farmed mosquitos when we find something else that produces similar tubes.

Our most successful efforts at wiping out wild mosquitos, though, don't produce useful corpses. So I don't think it's particularly realistic for high industrial demand to lead to mosquito extinction anyway.

OP here.

Sharing this for the philosophical questions it raises, as well as what it means for politics in general. The discussion was super interesting to me, so I figured it might be to some other people here.

I'm not sharing this to discuss short term political subjects, neither to judge wether China or the West is better/worst.

Did AI help at any step in the process?

After seeing this, I (or rather, v0) created https://hnhell.com for the joke.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946932

To be fair it is really not great, but it works for the joke and I'm impressed by how good it works for how little time it took.

Actually I just shared an example of the type of tips I had in mind. Limestone in the shower was pretty time-consuming to clean up, and using microfiber cloth and white vinegar made it much easier/better/faster.

Removed the optimizing part from the title. I shared an example of what I meant in a comment.

OP: White vinegar for limestone. With microfiber cloth it's very effective.

You can find numerous subreddits with tips and "life hacks" like this, stuff your grandmother knew. Doesn't seem like HN material.

I would have liked to get the specific HNers pov.

Limescale?

Do you have a training method for divergence?

Similar to the finger moving closer and closer to the upper nose technique, for convergence.

It's a little more abstract since you don't have handy moving-reference-object like your finger, but: Place the picture in front of something deep, like a long hallway. Look off at something in the distance behind the picture, like the end of the hallway. Notice how the edge of the picture is a double image. Focus on gradually resolving the edge of the picture down from double-image to single-image, and then do the reverse by looking down the hallway again and seeing the picture go back into double-vision. Just keep practicing that until you get the feel for controlling your depth perception and then try holding the same depth of the hallway while you turn your gaze to the picture and try the same action with your eyes.

Damn! After reading this I was surprised by the fact that this sounded very familiar.

I actually "practiced" a lot like this because I was always amused to notice how we could basically "see through" objects with this double-image thingy (see experiment below).

So I decided to film myself... and I was actually already doing a divergence! Not convergence!

Thanks a lot for your comment which made me realize that.

Experiment:

1. place your phone (handy size/shape for the experiment) in front of one eye (X), at about 20cm.

2. close the other eye (Y) and look at your phone

3. Open Y and look straight without focusing on the phone. By blinking Y, the double-image should appear/disappear, as if it was unveiling what's behind your phone.

4. By closing X and with Y open, looking at your phone, you should see it displaced from where it was when X was open and Y was closed. The size of this displacement is equal to the size of the double-image transparent part.

This is incredible! Works unbelievably well. Thanks for sharing!